70 thoughts on “Kilimanjaro regaining its snow cap”

“Snow returning to Kilimanjaro is a clear sign that global warming is real. It is entirely consistent with mainstream climate change science models*, and there are plausible mechanisms# which show how this can happen.”

Somebody’s bound to say it, and I get so fed up of reading it when they do, that I thought I’d get in first. Where’s my grant?

Come on Anthony,
We know that the Thought Police have told us that global warming causes climate change.

And that climate change causes droughts and bushfires and floods and earth quakes and tsunamis and cyclones and nuclear disasters and islands sinking and jelly fish sperm becoming infertile and just about anything else you care to mention including increasing and decreasing snow on Mt Kilimanjaro.

I am waiting with some anticipation to find out that it causes more conflict in the Middle East. Anthony, I am a law abiding citizen; when I am convinced of that fact I will be happy to pay my carbon tax (sorry price).

Remember Anthony, George told us “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.”

The global climate zones have shifted again back towards what they were when Kilimanjaro last showed accumulating snow cover. That applies as much to Tanzania as to Europe, North America and Australia.

So nothing or little to do with CO2 levels OR deforestation and human influence is exonerated.

To be fair, if you read the whole ETN piece and then read the last “related article”, “Global warming and Mt. Kilimanjaro”, half way down that article it does say “Even if some of their claims are questionable, climate warmists have ………… “.
A long search for a little journalistic common sense, though.

I love stories like this. Not so much for the story itself but just anticipating the coming shhhhppinnn. But this one is so in-your-face – unless that’s all warmsnow and warmice up there – that maybe they’ll just go quiet on it.

‘Sources from the mountain environmental watchdog groups said the snow could mount to cover most areas of the mountain, but the effects of climate change and global warming could still affect the mountain’s snow layers which are becoming thinner and thinner.’
you just can’t win with these people..

The smart money says that this was part of the effect of the Obama presidency. You know – ‘this is the moment that the earth started to heal and sea levels started to subside’ or however that nonsense was worded.

They’ll be claiming lives are at risk now due to avalanches threatening to engulf the perimeter due to AGW/earthquake induced by AGW, next. Or that the leaked radiation from Fukushima has travelled round to Tanzania, reacted with the CO2 just above Mount Kilimanjaro causing the added snow. They’ll never give up even on a lost cause! Sarc!

And what you all need to realise is that this is not good snow.
It is rotten snow.

Rotten as in “Damn it – just as I had snowed the good Australian prime minister Green-Julia into taxing the Australian people needlessly and in the worst possible way (worst as in best) to cripple their economy, the rotten snow has gone and spoint it!”

Someone whould graph the increase and project ahead to find a point of no return and the exact day when the entire planet will be covered. Then write a book, make a movie, sell shovel futures and retire early.

Joshs AGW table has had yet another leg kicked out from under it.
maybe time to turn it into a side table?
Polar Bears, Fail
Kilimanjaro, Fail,
warming troposphere, Fail,
ocean heating, Fail
ricketty or plain Legless?

Hans Meyer, German geographer and the first man to climb Kilimanjaro, noted the ice retreat in 1898. He noted that the ice limit had withdrawn by over 100m since his first ascent 8 years earlier.http://tinyurl.com/68sbmr6

“Results suggest glaciers on Kilimanjaro are merely remnants of a past climate rather than sensitive indicators of 20th century climate change….All ice bodies on Kilimanjaro have retreated drasti-cally between 1912 –2003. Despite air temperatures always being below freezing, areal retreat of plateau glaciers is governed mostly by solar radiation induced melt on vertical walls that characterize their north and south margins [Molg et al., 2003].”http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/tanzania/pubs/cullen_etal_2006grl.pdf

Is this yet another hole in the cAGW hypothesis which will have to be re-filled with millions of dollars of grant money?

Up until now they were ignoring that it was a hole at all, and now that metaphoric water is pouring in that metaphoric hole, they will need to fill it with something, and cAGW grant money buys them the most convenient scientific conclusions to act as hole-bungs that money can buy.

No, it’s not rotten snow. It’s new snow. What counts is multi-year snow. There is an Algorithm that measures the amount of old snow versus new snow. Model results clearly show a continued decline in old snow.

“Environmentalists warn that this highest peak in Africa could lose its ice cover and glaciers between 2018 and 2020 unless global campaigns to save the mountain’s ecology are taken.”
The new information doesn’t seem to have gotten through to their spin doctors yet. For now, it’s just stay the course. They are so predictable in their gloom and doom ideology.

My favorite author is Ernest Hemingway, as he is of many millions of people throughout the world. One of his most famous short stories is entitled “The Snows Of Kilimanjaro.”…… the snows of Kilimanjaro may soon exist only in literature.

This is a report from a tourist promotion group that cites only what a few people think they see. It does not cite any scientific studies or measurements. It may or may not be valid. Even if it is correct it is not at all clear that it is significant. Snow cover expansion where there was once solid ice may or may not be the beginning of a trend. Try to be at least a little skeptical.

Maybe I’m being paranoid but I have notice a dearth of recent images of Kilimanjaro from NASA and other Warmist sites. Am I looking in the wrong place. I would like to see recent, dated images. Any pointers.

Been burning wood like crazy, soaking my atmosphere around me with CO2. Still too damned cold for bats or worms. I’ll have to use artificial bait and last year’s roe if I want to try to catch a nice steelhead. And it is snowing, again, in Wallowa County right now.

Reminds me of our Easter pictures from the 50’s and very early 60’s. We stood in front of a snow bank for our Easter dress-up pictures before heading off to mass.

Because this has always been cyclical one needs only give time a chance to prove the current “trend” is just a segment of a well-established cycle. Because a trend looks like a very long cycle, and because serious long cycles predate observation requiring the use of proxies, and because proxies require interpretation, and because the interpreters have been shown to be corrupt bastids, best we just be patient.

We have said all along that the science is settled, sometimes we have to adjust our predictions forward several decades because they don’t happen. You deniers like to twist these necessary recomputations from model adjustments as ‘moving the goal posts.’ It is unfair to consider it as such, because our previously settled science of AGW meaning less snow has now been slightly updated to AGW means more snow, so thus we have all along said that the snow would not disappear from Kilimanjaro because AGW causes more snow, as well as that the snow will disappear from Kilimanjaro as AGW causes less snow. Either scenario is not inconsistant with AGW. Thank you.

I climbed Kilimanjaro while waiting for an electrical inspection of a project in the 80s. It was a day after President Carter climbed it. It was very snowy and cold at the last camp and a beautiful experience starting in jungle, crossing tundra and into winter. Oh I got robbed at gunpoint losing a bit of cash, a twenty doolar traveler’s cheque and my passport which sent me off on another unplanned adventure by bus to Dar es Salam for travel docs.

I’d gotten a contract to develop a stone quarry in an ignimbrite bed (welded volcanic ash)and build a stone sawing plant near Moshi at the foot of Kilimanjaro. The ash bed is 8m thick and many km long and was to serve as a cheap substitute material for concrete blocks for housing construction. The specifications were for a labor intensive op that would would employ workers who were quarrying and shaping blocks by hand and burying the quarry with waste (about 80% of the stone). We bought an old wire saw from Vermont, a compressor, drills and tools and shipped them over in 20′ container. We had to build an electric generator out of two scrapped Soviet units and a quarry crane from hardwood telephone poles a 3 ton chain hoist and a counterweight made of a steel barrel filled with scrap iron and poured concrete. The boom was suspended from a tripod of poles with the short end over the quarry and the long end rigged with the chain hoist and counterweight for leverage. The short swing was enough to lift a 5-10t block from the quarry and onto a flat-deck truck usin nuscle power. The crame was a substitute for one that was supposed to be available and the generator for tthe grid power that was supposed to have been ready to hook up (the poles for it were lying on the ground along 10 miles of road, afew of which we borrowed for the crane).

Anyway, I’m happy the snow is coming back. Anyone checked out the status of world mtn glaciers recently?

The thing is, the environmentalistss and watchdogs actually want Kilamenjaro to lose it’s glaciers, they don’t want the ice to return. Though they cry about the loss publically, it is to their benefit to have the ice vanish permanantly.

The snow returns to an African mountain and there is a very cold period from late November through to January in the Northern Hemisphere including the UK.
The cold weather stays in the USA and many parts of the Northern Hemisphere well into the New Year but Britain settles down to a more normal winter.
It is probably something to do with the Gulf Stream.
Sorry Al, I just thought I would point it out.

I haven’t time to read all the comments – but obviously the increasing snow cover is just down to the natural variability THIS time. As soon as it’s reducing it will be cow farts and CO2 all over again….
sad really……
(sarc off )

Anthony… Here is a better article to link to on the subject. And isn’t this a most damning quote?

“Unfortunately, we made the prediction. I wish we hadn’t,” says Douglas R. Hardy, a UMass geoscientist who was among 11 co-authors of the paper in the journal Science that sparked the pessimistic Kilimanjaro forecast. “None of us had much history working on that mountain, and we didn’t understand a lot of the complicated processes on the peak like we do now.”

WHAT?????

“None of us had much history working on that mountain, and we didn’t understand a lot of the complicated processes on the peak like we do now.”

So WHAT THE HELL were you doing publishing and supporting this AS IF IT WAS CERTAIN?????
I wonder if anyone will demand a retraction from Thompson and Hardy?

I think we need to address Global Warming once and for all.
Computer :
“Yes”
What is your name?
“Global Warming Mark V”
Thank you, Computer.
“Feed me”
What do you require for fuel?
“Grants. Specifically stacks of fresh bills”

Greater and greater amounts of snow is nice. But the amount that doesn’t melt compared to the amount that does is the key to glacier growth. It may be the case that glacier growth occurs at such a slow pace, it may be indiscernible within a human life span, but the degree to which it melts may be discernible. On top of that, all current glaciers likely cannot keep up with erosion. This means that glaciers are made very slowly during cold epics, and then lost quickly during warm epics (which explains our PANIC). By the time a new glacial period comes along, glaciers will build in places they were not, because the mountain that used to have one is now too low to support one.

Actually, in case no one has noticed our atmospheric content has altered. As have all the other orbiting bodies from info gathered here at the local drive up E. The part of our atmosphere that makes up the greenhouse gas, the fabled oxygen, is increasing.

More oxygen in atmos, more water vapor, more ice falling. Makes sense?